Author: Steve Dalton Publisher: Ten Speed Press ISBN: 1607741717 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
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A job-search manual that gives career seekers a systematic, tech-savvy formula to efficiently and effectively target potential employers and secure the essential first interview. The 2-Hour Job Search shows job-seekers how to work smarter (and faster) to secure first interviews. Through a prescriptive approach, Dalton explains how to wade through the Internet’s sea of information and create a job-search system that relies on mainstream technology such as Excel, Google, LinkedIn, and alumni databases to create a list of target employers, contact them, and then secure an interview—with only two hours of effort. Avoiding vague tips like “leverage your contacts,” Dalton tells job-hunters exactly what to do and how to do it. This empowering book focuses on the critical middle phase of the job search and helps readers bring organization to what is all too often an ineffectual and frustrating process.
Author: Michelle R. Weise Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 111959748X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
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A visionary guide for the future of learning and work Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet offers readers a fascinating glimpse into a near-future where careers last 100 years, and education lasts a lifetime. The book makes the case that learners of the future are going to repeatedly seek out educational opportunities throughout the course of their working lives — which will no longer have a beginning, middle, and end. Long Life Learning focuses on the disruptive and burgeoning innovations that are laying the foundation for a new learning model that includes clear navigation, wraparound and funding supports, targeted education, and clear connections to more transparent hiring processes. Written by the former chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network’s Institute for the Future of Work, the book examines: How will a dramatically extended lifespan affect our careers? How will more time in the workforce shape our educational demands? Will a four-year degree earned at the start of a 100-year career adequately prepare us for the challenges ahead? Perfect for anyone with an interest in the future of education and Clayton Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation, Long Life Learning provides an invaluable glimpse into a future that many of us have not even begun to imagine.
Author: Steve Dalton Publisher: Ten Speed Press ISBN: 1984857282 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 258
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Use the latest technology to target potential employers and secure the first interview--no matter your experience, education, or network--with these revised and updated tools and recommendations. “The most practical, stress-free guide ever written for finding a white-collar job.”—Dan Heath, coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick Technology has changed not only the way we do business, but also the way we look for work. The 2-Hour Job Search rejects laundry lists of conventional wisdom in favor of a streamlined job search approach that produces results quickly and efficiently. In three steps, creator Steve Dalton shows you how to select, prioritize, and make contact with potential employers so you can land that critical first interview. In this revised second edition, you'll find updated advice on how to efficiently surf online job postings, how to reach out to contacts at your dream workplace and when to follow up, and advice on using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google to your best advantage. Dalton incorporates ideas from leading thinkers in behavioral economics, psychology, and game theory, as well as success stories from readers of the first edition. The 2-Hour Job Search method has proven so successful that it has been shared at schools across the globe and is a formal part of the curriculum for all first-year MBAs at Duke University. With this book, you'll learn how to make it work for you too.
Author: W. Norton Grubb Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610442571 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 180
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"Grubb's powerful vision of a workforce development system connected by vertical ladders for upward mobility adds an important new dimension to our continued efforts at system reform. The unfortunate reality is that neither our first-chance education system nor our second-chance job training system have succeeded in creating clear pathways out of poverty for many of our citizens. Grubb's message deserves a serious hearing by policy makers and practitioners alike." —Evelyn Ganzglass, National Governors' Association Over the past three decades, job training programs have proliferated in response to mounting problems of unemployment, poverty, and expanding welfare rolls. These programs and the institutions that administer them have grown to a number and complexity that make it increasingly difficult for policymakers to interpret their effectiveness. Learning to Work offers a comprehensive assessment of efforts to move individuals into the workforce, and explains why their success has been limited. Learning to Work offers a complete history of job training in the United States, beginning with the Department of Labor's manpower development programs in the1960s and detailing the expansion of services through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s and the Job Training Partnership Act in the 1980s.Other programs have sprung from the welfare system or were designed to meet the needs of various state and corporate development initiatives. The result is a complex mosaic of welfare-to-work, second-chance training, and experimental programs, all with their own goals, methodology, institutional administration, and funding. Learning to Work examines the findings of the most recent and sophisticated job training evaluations and what they reveal for each type of program. Which agendas prove most effective? Do their effects last over time? How well do programs benefit various populations, from welfare recipients to youths to displaced employees in need of retraining? The results are not encouraging. Many programs increase employment and reduce welfare dependence, but by meager increments, and the results are often temporary. On average most programs boosted earnings by only $200 to $500 per year, and even these small effects tended to decay after four or five years.Overall, job training programs moved very few individuals permanently off welfare, and provided no entry into a middle-class occupation or income. Learning to Work provides possible explanations for these poor results, citing the limited scope of individual programs, their lack of linkages to other programs or job-related opportunities, the absence of academic content or solid instructional methods, and their vulnerability to local political interference. Author Norton Grubb traces the root of these problems to the inherent separation of job training programs from the more successful educational system. He proposes consolidating the two domains into a clearly defined hierarchy of programs that combine school- and work-based instruction and employ proven methods of student-centered, project-based teaching. By linking programs tailored to every level of need and replacing short-term job training with long-term education, a system could be created to enable individuals to achieve increasing levels of economic success. The problems that job training programs address are too serious too ignore. Learning to Work tells us what's wrong with job training today, and offers a practical vision for reform.
Author: Karen Kelsky Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0553419420 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 450
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The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 926408746X Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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An OECD study of vocational education and training designed to help countries make their systems more responsive to labour market needs. It expands the evidence base, identifies a set of policy options and develops tools to appraise VET policy initiatives.
Author: Ann Rajaram Publisher: Ann Rajaram ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages :
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Did you recently graduate or are about to graduate this year? Worried about landing a job in a distressed economy? Want a high-paying $$$ career without spending months searching and applying unsuccessfully? This book is the perfect guide for you, if you fall into any of these categories: * You recently completed a bachelors or masters degree (or online course or bootcamp) and want to get hired quickly. * Seniors/ final year students looking for an internship to kickstart your career. * You are a young professional (YP) with less than 3 years' experience who was recently laid off or frustrated with your current role. * Tired of applying to dozens of jobs without getting a positive response and/or final job offer. * You had job offers but they were rescinded. * F1 visa, STEM OPT/ CPT students will also find this book helpful to land a job before the OPT clock starts. The book will teach you proven successful strategies on: * Stellar Hire-Worthy Profiles - Turbocharge your resume and LinkedIn profile so that JOBS CHASE YOU, instead of the other way around! * LinkedIn - A dedicated chapter on LinkedIn that teaches you some creative (and SECRET) ways to leverage the site and identify high-paying jobs with low competition. * Social Media & Niche Job Boards - A full list of job boards that have excellent jobs with little competition. Easier for you to land your dream job! than the popular job search sites. Methods to leverage Twitter, Girlboss and other communities. * Upwork - Learn proven techniques to help you bag contracts and start earning, as quickly as next week. * Behavioral interview questions with ANSWERS to help you prepare for different interview modes. * Free learning resources and much more... Author is a practicing analytics manager who has worked in Fortune500 Firms like NASDAQ , BlackRock, etc. Unlike most job search books that are written by recruiters or professors, this book is written by a senior professional, who rose quickly from analyst to managerial roles. She has attended interviews of her own, and knows clearly the frustrations (and at times, hopelessness) of the job search process. The systems in this book have successfully helped dozens of job seekers and will work effectively for you too! Read on to launch your dream career! Note, this book is deliberately kept short and precise, so you can quickly read through and start applying these principles, instead of sifting through 500 pages of fluff. Topics included in this book: How to find a job after college/ graduation; Secrets to Findina a Job after College; How to use LinkedIn to get a job; Job interview guide and preparation; Guide to Winning Interviews; What to say in job interviews/ Ace your technical and behavioral interviews; Prepare portfolio to showcase your skills and attract employment job offers;
Author: Katherine Elizabeth Wullert Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Looking for work can be a very fraught experience, filled with immense stress and pressure. The sociological literature, however, has tended to view job searches as simple matching processes, connecting potential employees to employers. In my dissertation, I argue for further interrogation of the job search itself from the perspective of job seekers. In doing so, I highlight the ways in which experiences on the job search come to shape individuals' conceptions about work and about themselves in unequal ways as well as important meaning- and decision-making processes that occur over the course of job search. Drawing on longitudinal interviews with 63 men and women seeking internships and full-time employment in computer science, I find that the actors, processes, and procedures of the job search teach heavily gendered conceptualizations of the field and disproportionately alienate women who were more likely to question their passion for the field and express intentions to leave within five to ten years than their men counterparts. I further show how the processes, actors, and experiences that make up a job search contribute to individual perceptions of competition in the labor market, frequently increasing feelings of pressure and precarity beyond the economic realities of supply and demand. While the impact of this increased pressure was broad, increasing worries and concerns about being competitive enough even among the most privileged job seekers, job seekers with less access to status either through their education institutions or their family class background were more likely to find these experiences played into existing concerns about their belonging in the field. Finally, I additionally examine how job seekers aim to evaluate companies on factors like their diversity and societal impact in the course of a job search, but that doing so is often challenging and ambiguous. Because of this, job seekers frequently considered and applied to companies that they did not feel acted in socially responsible ways and had to manage the tension of seeking employment at firms that do not meet their stated goals. Together, these findings aim to illuminate not just the outcomes but the experience of seeking work in order to begin to unpack the black box of the job search. In doing so, they underscore the unequal and consequential challenges and opportunities that this presents, with important implications for workforce diversity and inclusion as well as the ways in which companies are able to manage potentially negative assessments of their broader social impact.
Author: Lisa A. Holmes Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525538802 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 100
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Learn the secrets of success in job hunting from Lisa A. Holmes, a human resources expert with more than thirty years’ experience. Her “soup-to-nuts” guide will help you hone your hunting skills, land and keep your desired job in an ever-changing market. This practical guide to the modern career search will help you better understand the emotional journey of the job search, how to create a stellar résumé and develop strong communication skills, and get insider knowledge of what HR and recruiters look for in a candidate. Whether you are a college senior, or “downsized,” or in transition, or looking to get back into the job market, Lisa A. Holmes will help you overcome the stress associated with job hunting. You will better understand your current skills and gaps, develop a career strategy, and create the right résumé. Launch from there into practical networking techniques, negotiating with prospective employers, and understanding how to stay relevant in this evolving economy.
Author: Donna L. Shannon Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781468147964 Category : Job hunting Languages : en Pages : 0
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Most job seekers are insane... They do the same ineffective techniques over and over, while hoping for different results. That's crazy! Instead of following this maddening pattern, learn how to get through the HR screening process and-most importantly-how to reach the hiring manager directly. Discover the Great Truths of the hiring game: 3 things every hiring manager wants to know. 3 essential rules for dealing with the HR department. 7 tools HR departments use to cut candidates. 8 interviewer styles and how to handle them. Over 20 samples of cover letters and resumes Best of all, learn how to create a relevant resume every time with the Key Element Detector(tm), a unique system that reveals the most important skills, experience, education and key words for any job - regardless of industry or experience level. Don't become another HR casualty... Arm yourself with real-world practical tactics and learn How to Get a Job Without Going Crazy! PRAISE FOR GET A JOB WITHOUT GOING CRAZY: "This book is a good practical guide that is user friendly. It provides the 21st century job seekers the information needed to significantly improve their chances of finding the job of their dreams." - Dr. Kathleen Dodaro, Ph.D. President, Dodaro & Associates Specializing Leadership Development, Recruitment and Retention Programs "Donna shows you how to "crack the code" that gets your resume through the screeners and onto the top of the stack. Every page reveals a secret or two that makes the most of your skills and experience. Now you can get you the job you really want. True Guerrilla Selling tactics (my highest rating)." -Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP Speaker and Author of Guerrilla Selling "Ms. Shannon's book is direct, informative and entertaining. It presents the truths and myths of effective self-marketing. Her HR experience and expertise make her insightful, practical book a must read for those looking to compete in today's job market." - W. Williamson "Definitely a well thought-out approach to 'what to do next' when faced with either finding the right job or for finding your NEXT perfect job if you've been laid off." - E. Miller "Every job seeker MUST read How to Get a Job Without Going Crazy. Donna's clear and straightforward strategy will help you develop your story, write a compelling resume, give a strong interview, and conduct a successful search. She blends this common sense approach with insider knowledge of what goes through the minds of HR professionals and hiring managers - and shares the scoop on how and what they do to fill their openings with the best candidate. Read this book to discover the strategy and insights to land the job that's right for you!" Dan Clemens, Business Coach and Author of A Perfect Season: A Coach's Journey to Learning, Competing, and Having Fun in Youth Baseball
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